This collection of correspondence includes 20 letters with envelopes and 6 envelopes without accompanying letters. All letters are addressed to Hugh Bolton Jones, father of a Maryland landscape painter who bore the same name. The most frequent correspondents are his wife Laura, his daughter Louise, and his son also named Hugh Bolton Jones. One letter is from a cousin, Lydia A. Hamilton. Most of the letters from Jones' family were sent from South Orange, New Jersey to Baltimore, Maryland, and these letters contain details of their daily family life. There are also several letters from Jones' business acquaintances. Because both father and son shared a name it is unclear at times who is being addressed, but the majority of the letters were intended for the senior Hugh Bolton Jones. One letter in particular seems to have been written to the son, who was a well-known Maryland landscape painter; this letter describes an acquaintance's visit to a French Salon show, including descriptions of paintings by Jones and several other painters.
